Mettler-toledo Safeline Limited

David Gregory Lyon

A metal detector has a transformer unit (), a transmitter unit (), a receiver coil set (), a signal processing unit () and a control unit (). The transformer unit provides an input signal (s) with selectable operating frequency (f) to an amplifier stage (), that is connected to a transmitter coil () that is coupled to first and second receiver coils (). The coil outputs are connected to the signal processing unit, which has a receiver unit () and a signal processor (). A coupling transformer () has first and second windings (A,B), connected to the output of the amplifier stage, and a third winding (C), connected to the transmitter coil. The first and second windings are each connected at a first end to a supply voltage (+Ub). Each of the first and second windings has at least one tapping (') at a same turn number counted from the first end. The amplifier stage has first and second amplification wings (A,B). Each of these is associated with a power transistor connected to one of the at least one tappings of the corresponding winding, so the first and second amplification wings amplify the corresponding first and second half waves of the input signal.

Metal detection apparatus

A metal detection apparatus that uses one or more operating frequencies. The metal detection apparatus comprises, among other things, a transmitter unit that provides transmitter signals to a transmitter coil that is coupled to a receiver coil, which is connected to the input of a receiver unit. The transmitter unit comprises a frequency generator that provides an operating frequency to the input of an amplifier stage, whose output is connected via a transformer to the transmitter coil. The amplifier stage is connected to a first tap and the transmitter coil is connected to a second tap of the same transformer winding of the transformer. A resonant circuit is formed that is tuned to the operating frequency, and can be tuned optimally and independently of other parts of the transmitter unit.

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Cheshire, United Kingdom

David Gregory Lyon